Double Knits -- all colors and kinds left over from my dressmaking days--I seem to have bought a lot of it before my brain caught up with the fact I was not making clothes anymore. Anyone have an idea of who would want it???

I would love to help you downsize :lol:

quilting books and little scrips of fabric.

My weekness is quilt kits. I used to never buy them and now seem like everytime I go in the quilt shop she has another kit that I just can't do without. So far I have made one of them and probably have 50 or more plus backing fabric. She gives a 20% discount on the backing if you buy it when you buy the kit.

Dust! I hate to clean!!

Aw, cctx, you can NEVER have too many 30s!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't seem to discard batting scraps. I can think of all sorts of things to use them for, but when will I have the time to make bookmarks, quilt as you go blocks, purse and bag straps, etc. Woe is me.

OMG Dora - ME TOO - but our crazy LOVE of this hobby we're following (quilting) CERTAINLY DOES NOT HELP our posteriors either does it (it's hard to make myself get up from the quilt frame, sewing machine, etc. - or leave this quilt msg board - to make yourself go for a walk) :oops:

Too many boxes of fabric waiting to be unpacked from my move last year. I am needing to build shelves to put it all on. Then I will decide what I have too much of!!!

Silk....... embroidered silk, variegated silk, all kinds of silk. I have 2 HUGE bags of 12'x12" and bigger samples given to me by a drapery guy going out of business. They are so beautiful but I am at a loss of what to do with them.

Hey, I like your thinking on this . If I really like the fabric , I am going to buy extras- so I can cut some and save some.

I used to collect Christmas ornaments, but since my daughter passed away we don't put up a tree anymore. So I have cupboards full of Christmas ornaments, that I really don't want to get rid of, taking up space I could use for my quilting supplies. I know I need to find another spot for them.

Scraps, scraps and more scraps; of every color! A while back I got ambitious and sorted the scraps into hues; reds, blues, greens, yellows, purples, pinks, yada, yada, yada. Decided I would make a Dresden Plate with them, THEN found the tutorial on here for a machine sewn Cathedral Window and took some of my larger pieces for that, THEN discovered a whole JoAnn bag of red, black and white fabric I had cut at my local LQS for an Irish Chain, and THEN found a work boot box full of red, black, grey and white!
So, scraps, lots of scraps!!

I'm still not sure...do you maybe hate blue??? LOL
:-D

LOL - that's me all over!

Gadgets and geehaws. Not too long ago I went thru all my boxes, bins, bags, totes, sacks, drawers, etc. and found 46 (yes, I did actually say 46!) replacement rotary cutter blades. I am also the one with enough freezer paper to cover a football field...couldn't find any locally one day and ordered a 48lb box from a restaurant supply business!

magazines

I have LOTS of rose fabric. My favorite is pink roses. It always is my first choice. My other can't seem to live without are scissors. I love scissors. I really seem to have a soft spot for these two things. I also have too many books, too many fat quarters, and most of all too much fabric. My husband calls it my disease. He does say it with a laugh. I could not ask for a better husband than the one I have had for 43 years.

Grey hair, have to dye it every 8 to 10 weeks otherwise I have the dreaded skunk streak.

Flannel, I have yards and yards of it. I make pjs and rag quilts and regular quilts out of it. so I buy it all the time.

I tear pattern out of mymagazines and file them in plastic sleeves that I put into 3 or 4" binders. I have dozens of binders and bags full of magazines that I haven't yet cut up. It's daunting! I know I'll never live long enough to use all these patterns, but it's an addiction.

I agree with this one. I don't know what I think I am going to do with all these small pieces of batting. Maybe a quilt as you go pattern. :)

Sooooo many scraps. I try to organize them, but I think I'm fighting a losing battle. This siize. That size. Oh it's too big to be a scrap. Wait a minute, maybe it's a strip. Yes, I could put this with the other strips, or should I put it with like colors that include scraps and some pieces the birds could use to build nests?
This can make me crazy, so I just collect scraps. Several bags of them.

Count me in too! I have pieces of paper with sketches all over the place. :)

i am a flower person and would love to have some. my email is [email protected] please email me with you have and how much and how many yards they are ok.
thanks
janet

Corduroy makes great fabric for school bags for missions.
Gift your corduroy to a Lutheran Church.
Better still check out the Lutheran World Relief site for the pattern and make the bags.
Other churches probably do the same, but this is the one I know about.

Too much of? :lol: Is that possible?

Ohhhh the scrappy quilts you both can make. I LOVEEEEEEE scraps.

Scraps are not for collecting, the are for sewing up into wonderful scrappy quilts!!! Get out those bags and make something fun and special soon!!!

I know how that feels when you mix the meds, i did once, my was looking for me i was asleep at the machine, it was not on..

Sounds like a plan i just might dump the bags, and go for the gusto

I agree about the dyeing . I do my hair every 8 weeks too. I feel better when I do it, it also makes me look and feel younger than I am (being vain) but why not.

I am opening a home for wayward scraps. No charge or entry fee to move your scraps in. I promise they will receive love and attention and will mature into a lovely scrappy quilt family when the time is right. Hugsssss and smiles. LOL

From now on, when I inherit batiks, I will trade you for florals. :lol: :thumbup: I really like some of the batiks I have seen, my brain just doesn't 'see' quilts with them, although I love seeing everyone art with them. Plumb pure amazes me.

Dust and dirty dishes every thing else seems to be balanced[nothings fallen -yet- :D :D ---actually to many ideas and not enough time at home lately

Oh my, after reading all the replies I don't think I have too much of anything, in fact I don't think I have enough of everything :lol: ....except dust and grey hair :oops:

I am a scrap person, I am in heaven when some one gives me a bag/box of scraps, I have to get them out and stroke them, fold them into a orderly pile, then put them back into the container, I make about one scrap quilt a week, all for charity.
I also love magazines, having once owned a shop that sold magazines, at the end of their lives there would be quilting magazine for me, aeroplane magazines for my Husband and motorcycle magazines for son. We have all become magazine junkies VBG

Dale
new Zealand

the old hobby of smocking on corduroy and making them into pillows - think of the 70's, my mom is actually making them again - in the stores they are about $25! what goes around comes around!

hand sewing needles - I love the old timey kits.

You are one sick woman!!! lol